05-27-2009, 06:48 PM
Virenji,
An analysis of the election results will indicate that the general trend has been pro UPA almost right across the country .However; it will be incorrect to say that this trend has been uniform. That is the reason that BJP has won 118 seats. This is not a poor performance as a national party, but it was not expected of the party that was aspiring to rule the nation for the next five years. The winning of the 118 seats by the BJP is proof of some support it still enjoys in different constituencies in almost all of the States. This trend has been more prominent in Karnataka as well as in Chatisgarh .The reason for this can be interpreted both ways. Either the majority of the people in these two States are happy with the program and performance of the respective State Governments or the opponents have not been able to influence the voters by their performance in the Centre during the last five years or their future program was not found to be attractive enough by the voters.
While analyzing the results on a national level , you need to take the national level trend. This has undoubtedly gone against the BJP and its associates in rest of the States except Kerala and West Bengal where it has gone against the Left. Therefore, to have a revival of the BJPs fortunes on the national scale, I still hold the view that it has to revamp its policies as indicated in my previous article. We should not cite examples to justify BJPs performance, as it will be self defeating and disastrous for the future of the party. The most glaring example of its policy is the results that we got from Orissa. Here the performance of BJP which made so much noise against conversion is a clear indicator that religion cannot influence voting pattern to a decisive level.
An analysis of the election results will indicate that the general trend has been pro UPA almost right across the country .However; it will be incorrect to say that this trend has been uniform. That is the reason that BJP has won 118 seats. This is not a poor performance as a national party, but it was not expected of the party that was aspiring to rule the nation for the next five years. The winning of the 118 seats by the BJP is proof of some support it still enjoys in different constituencies in almost all of the States. This trend has been more prominent in Karnataka as well as in Chatisgarh .The reason for this can be interpreted both ways. Either the majority of the people in these two States are happy with the program and performance of the respective State Governments or the opponents have not been able to influence the voters by their performance in the Centre during the last five years or their future program was not found to be attractive enough by the voters.
While analyzing the results on a national level , you need to take the national level trend. This has undoubtedly gone against the BJP and its associates in rest of the States except Kerala and West Bengal where it has gone against the Left. Therefore, to have a revival of the BJPs fortunes on the national scale, I still hold the view that it has to revamp its policies as indicated in my previous article. We should not cite examples to justify BJPs performance, as it will be self defeating and disastrous for the future of the party. The most glaring example of its policy is the results that we got from Orissa. Here the performance of BJP which made so much noise against conversion is a clear indicator that religion cannot influence voting pattern to a decisive level.